Open Thread – February 2025

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  1. mh says:

    Always worth listening to John

    Mearsheimer: ‘The Israelis lost in Gaza’ | The Bottom Line

    Al Jazeera English
    15.2M subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhnd3-IWlSY


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  2. mh says:

    More John

    “Trump Is NOT a Warmonger” John Mearsheimer On Gaza, Russia & More

    Piers Morgan Uncensored

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqReoPJfFwA


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  3. mh says:

    United States of Israel

    Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו
    @netanyahu
    ·
    On behalf of Israel and the Jewish people, I thank President @realDonaldTrump for his executive order to fight antisemitism and support for terrorism on American campuses.

    Thank you, @POTUS, for standing up for truth and justice.

    2:43 AM · Jan 31, 2025


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  4. mh says:

    National Conservative
    @NatCon2022

    You just couldn’t make this up.

    Rebecca Lobach, co-pilot of the Black Hawk, previously worked as a White House aide for Biden.

    https://x.com/NatCon2022/status/1885831264646599024


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  5. mh says:

    Judge SUPPRESSES names of Lawyers For Israel for TEN YEARS!
    Why the special treatment?

    Journalist Antoinette Lattouf Sues Former Employer ABC | 10 News First

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv463ClPvNA


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  6. mh says:

    INTERVIEW: Andrew Tate fights back

    George Galloway
    528K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYWaPEeJ7v8


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  7. mh says:

    Jews win again, freedom of speech loses

    The Age

    SEN Radio parts ways with cricket journalist over Palestine social media posts

    SEN Radio has parted ways with prominent cricket journalist Peter Lalor halfway through Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka over his social media activity relating to Palestine.

    Lalor was told on the final morning of the match by SEN’s chief executive Craig Hutchison that his services were no longer required.

    Lalor’s X feed includes re-posts of news stories about Israeli attacks in Gaza, and about the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.

    Lalor, formerly the chief cricket writer at The Australian, was used by SEN as a commentator during the first Test in Galle. He also works as a commentator for Seven and writes and podcasts for the Cricket Et Al Substack.

    Lalor released a statement on Monday night in which he said he had received two calls from SEN senior management at SEN on the third day of the Galle Test, and was informed the following morning that he could not no longer work for them.

    “I was told in one call there were serious organisations making complaints; in another I was told that this was not the case,” Lalor wrote in his statement.

    “Perhaps I misunderstood. I was told there were accusations I was antisemitic which I strongly objected to. I was told my retweeting was not balanced, and insensitive to one side and that many people had complained.

    “I was asked by station boss Craig Hutchison, who was civil, if I didn’t care that my retweeting of events in Gaza made Jewish people in Melbourne feel unsafe. I said I didn’t want anyone to feel unsafe. Of course, I care. I have friends who are frightened and have heard the fear in their voices during conversations. It is an awful situation. But so is Gaza. It was a brief and cordial call.

    “The following day Hutchinson told me that because the “sound of my voice made people feel unsafe” and that people are “triggered by my voice”, I could not cover the cricket for them anymore.” …


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  8. mh says:

    News dot com

    Usman Khawaja slams ‘unbelievable’ sacking of Peter Lalor during Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka

    As the news broke on Monday night, fresh of his first ever double century, Khawaja spoke out in support of Lalor, labelling his dismissal “unbelievable”, and sharing the journalist’s statement on his Instagram.

    “Standing up for the people of Gaza is not antisemitic nor does it have anything to do with my Jewish brothers and sisters in Australia, but everything to do with the Israeli government and their deplorable actions,” Khawaja said. …


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  9. mh says:

    Nicholas J. Fuentes
    @NickJFuentes

    Watch how Tucker crumbles when Piers asks him point blank, “do you support Israel?”

    For all of his bluster on this issue, it’s strange that Tucker can’t give a direct answer on this question.

    https://x.com/NickJFuentes/status/1886537020308132202

    Yep. Tucker is a fraud.

    Well done Piers Morgan for exposing Tucker Carlson.


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  10. mh says:

    The Age

    A shareholder in SEN Radio has defended the station’s decision to dump cricket journalist Peter Lalor from its coverage over social media activity that was perceived as pro-Palestine.

    John Rothfield, known as “Dr Turf”, said he was aware of Lalor’s extensive posting on the war in Gaza but was not consulted by SEN chief executive Craig Hutchison about the reporter’s departure. …

    John Rothfield is a Jew.

    Hello …


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  11. mh says:

    United States of Israel

    Nicholas J. Fuentes
    @NickJFuentes

    To be fair when Trump promised “Golden Age” and “Mass Deportations” he never specified which country he was talking about.

    12:20 PM · Feb 5, 2025 · 236.3K Views


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  12. mh says:

    TRUMP ANNEXES GAZA??? Trump Vows To EXPEL Palestinians And OCCUPY GAZA | America First Ep. 1450

    Nicholas J. Fuentes
    123K followers

    https://rumble.com/v6h22mm-america-first-ep.-1450.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp


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  13. mh says:

    Stew Peters
    @realstewpeters

    Here’s Trump pulling out the chair for the president of the United States.

    We are an OCCUPIED country.

    https://x.com/realstewpeters/status/1886928005538140246


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  14. mh says:

    Courier Mail

    ‘Riviera of the Middle East’: Trump reveals plan to take over Gaza

    Donald Trump has revealed a radical plan for the US to own Gaza – suggesting removing “all” Palestinians living there – after a meeting with Israel’s PM. Follow updates.

    Will Peter Dutton endorse the plan of Trump and Netanyahu?

    If not, he must hate Jews!


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  15. mh says:

    Trump makes The Squad look like America First

    Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
    @RepRashida

    This president is openly calling for ethnic cleansing while sitting next to a genocidal war criminal. He’s perfectly fine cutting off working Americans from federal funds while the funding to the Israeli government continues flowing.

    9:28 AM · Feb 5, 2025 · 1.5M Views

    https://x.com/RepRashida/status/1886919833184325927


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  16. mh says:

    No matter whom you vote for, you always wind up getting John McCain.

    Trump is no different.


    🇺🇸🇮🇱 FLASHBACK: “Will you go on national TV and perform oral sex on a donkey for Israel?”

    https://x.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1800902218385854774


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  17. mh says:

    Fox News

    Trump says he’s given orders for Iran to be ‘obliterated’ if it assassinates him

    ***

    So if Trump will not agree to a war with Iran, Mossad, specialists in political assassinations, will know what to do.
    And they don’t miss.

    4D Chess. Or something.


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  18. mh says:

    Via Yahoo dot com

    When you’ve lost Lindsay Graham … 😂

    “We’ll see what our Arab friends say about that,” South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham told Politico. “I think most South Carolinians would probably not be excited about sending Americans to take over Gaza. I think that might be problematic, but I’ll keep an open mind.”

    Graham added that he imagined Gaza would be a “tough place to be stationed as an American.”


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  19. mh says:

    Colonel Douglas Macgregor joins GG

    INTERVIEW: Daft and dangerous Donald

    George Galloway
    529K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx7iywm_GZA


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  20. mh says:

    Trump BETRAYS MAGA & “America First” Over Gaza!

    The Jimmy Dore Show
    1.48M subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0tK4cZfqmQ


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  21. mh says:

    The Age

    EDITORIAL
    We see what Trump was trying to do. That doesn’t make it OK

    The Age’s View
    February 8, 2025 — 5.00am

    Palestinians learnt this week their true worth in the eyes of Donald Trump. They reside on the margins. Their right to having a say in their existence is negligible. If geography is destiny, they have none. Trump threw reality out the window. He barely blinked. This is disturbing, deeply so.

    At a news conference in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one of the most powerful people in the world described the war-blasted rubble of Gaza in terms of its real estate potential. He spoke of a demolition site, of redevelopment, of opportunities, of a glorious rebuilt land perhaps to be known as the Riviera of the Middle East.

    He was defining Gaza, its 47,000 dead, 100,000 injured, bombed beyond recognition, not as a pitying scene of devastation and heartbreak, but as prime real estate replete with ocean views, ripe for redevelopment.

    There are many unsettling aspects to this. The predominant one, however, is this: Trump’s redevelopment model, “one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on earth”, requires the removal of Gazans.

    Two million Palestinians would have to be sent to neighbouring countries. Permanently or temporarily was not mentioned. This is ethnic cleansing. The US does not have the authority to do it and any forced removal would be unconscionable.

    At first, Trump saw his proposal as “a long-term ownership position. I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East and maybe the entire Middle East. Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent.”

    Since that pronouncement, the White House and Trump have gone back and forth, clarifying and then muddying the waters. Trump really meant temporary displacement, the White House said, and besides the US did not have the funds to rebuild Gaza. Troops being used? Yes, then no, then maybe.

    Then Trump took to social media, upping the ante and the unreality, for his latest salvo: “The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting. The Palestinians … would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region.”

    The world – allies and adversaries and the Arab world alike – have been aghast in their denunciation. Except, notably and shamefully, Australia. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese could say only he would not give a “running commentary” on every Trump pronouncement, citing the changes in the tariff wars over the past week.

    This is not good enough. This was not a moment for quiet diplomacy. Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s words have been inadequate, simply reiterating Australia’s stance towards a two-state solution or claiming that the uncertainty from Washington in the fallout points to the prudence of keeping quiet.

    It was said, it was done. Even ardent supporters of Israel’s campaign were troubled by it enough to condemn it.

    Was this the strength of our conviction? Our politicians’ comments were no comments at all. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, likely unintentionally, damned the plan with faint praise. Trump was a big thinker and dealmaker, he said.

    Trump’s plan is both against international law and common humanity. It reduces a people to chattels. It is perturbing that it is similar to what Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner suggested last year – to remove Palestinians so as to develop Gaza’s “very valuable” waterfront.

    In international law, the US cannot implement a takeover, and Israel cannot play a part in it.

    There is some comfort to be taken in the response of the international community, and indeed the White House. Trump’s plan is unlikely to ever be realised in the form he described. It was an ambit claim from a man who fancies himself a master negotiator. He wants to bring people to the table and in that he may succeed. He will change the conversation. He will promote different thinking.

    But that is not the point. If such casual suggestions of ethnic cleansing ever become a normalised or acceptable means to engineer an outcome, then there is a problem with the conversation. It is beyond opprobrium that such an outcome would be contemplated.

    At heart is the question of homeland. The Gaza Strip is considered home by many Palestinians.

    There is no doubt Trump has a firm grasp of real estate, but home is not real estate. The images of a Palestinians returning, walking through a destroyed landscape, to their houses, or where there houses once stood, after the ceasefire had been announced was testament to the power of home.

    The main point overlooked, of course.
    Occupied government.


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  22. Admin Admin says:

    FYI
    Blog traffic stats

    Reports data shows that there are hundreds of visitors to the blog.
    Some visit daily, even a number of times a day.

    Most of the traffic is from Australia but there’s also some from overseas.

    Complete data not available because the analytics cannot show visitors who add some sort of blockers, filters or security tools to their devices. This was noticed this during testing because it was not able to display all readers who were on the blog at that time.

    So the real blog data of visitors will be higher than what is showed in the reports.


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  23. mh says:

    Reports data shows that there are hundreds of visitors to the blog.

    Over what period of time?


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  24. mh says:

    Europe is full of refugees of the West’s wars for greater Israel.

    Despite Palestine resilience, Israel is determined the Palestinians will join them:

    Israel Working to Move Palestinians to Spain, Ireland, Norway and Canada – Defense Minister

    Chris Menahan
    InformationLiberation
    Feb. 06, 2025

    https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64837


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  25. mh says:

    CNN

    Time magazine’s provocative cover puts Elon Musk behind Trump’s desk

    ***

    So why does Time not put Netanyahu behind Trump’s desk?

    I think we all know why!


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  26. mh says:

    Fuentes Updates
    @FuentesUpdates
    ·
    Nov 6, 2024

    Ben Shapiro says that Trump winning is a “jewish holiday … Suck on that Nick Fuentes”

    https://x.com/FuentesUpdates/status/1854028382163423626

    Yep. The Jews are still winning.

    And MAGA? Are they winning?


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  27. mh says:

    While Aussies face a real cost of living crisis, our asshat politicians focus on a manufactured crisis designed to stop the Federal government voting against Israel

    ‘You’re disgusting’: Antisemitism row rocks question time

    Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus blasted the opposition for “politicising antisemitism”, drawing an extraordinary motion from the opposition to silence the Labor minister.


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  28. Admin says:

    Over what period of time?

    Taking the period of 2025 it will be a *few* hundreds.


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  29. Admin says:

    Stats were provided here as a general indicator for blog posters.

    This was only for estimate not exact figures

    Too many variables and fluctuations in data availability.


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  30. mh says:

    Dear friend,

    What follows is an opinion piece by a Russian Orthodox priest on the state of affairs in Russia and Ukraine. It is a full-throated defence of Russia and its actions and a condemnation of Ukranian and Western actions regarding Russia, and so, it is—by its nature—controversial and confrontational.

    Nation First has covered the demagoguery and corruption in Zelenskyy’s Ukraine before, and also how Putin is working against the globalist elite machinations in the West. For that, we’ve received criticism because we are swimming, not just against the tide of mainstream narrative, but almost against a tidal wave of pro-Zelenksyy and anti-Russia propaganda.

    I’d ask that you keep your mind open to alternative points of view such as this. And, of course, we are always happy to take submissions representing alternative points of view on such matters.

    Until next time, God bless you, your family and nation.

    Take care,

    George Christensen

    ***

    Russia: The Last Christian Stronghold Against Western Decay

    — Fr Michael Wood (a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia)

    Russia today is not Stalin’s Russia, nor is it Hitler’s Germany. Yes, it is strongly led, but it is not a dictatorship; it is strongly led towards a Christian civilisation, and modern westerners have no conception of what that means. It frightens them, because they have never seen a strong Christian empire; it is frightening unknown territory for the modern licentious westerner.

    The important point to bear in mind is that Orthodox Christianity has totally supplanted communism as the ideology of Russia. Russia has returned, over these past thirty-four years, to her thousand-year home as a Christian state. The sense of a holy destiny of Kievan Rus and Mother Russia has never left Russia and President Putin is its champion. The Orthodox Church in Russia is building and opening three churches a day and it has been doing this for years; it boasts one hundred and ten million active members – the communist party of the Russian Federation, has just six hundred thousand members.

    With thirty-four years of building, Russian Christianity now has a full generation of lifelong members, who are fully immersed in the highly traditional Orthodox Church’s view of what a moral Christian society is. That world-view is almost totally at variance from the modern “culture” of the Amero-Euro west. Christian Russia roundly rejects the western atheistic permissive culture and wants to wall itself off from that culture.

    In Putin’s mind it goes further; he reportedly said in a speech in 2013:

    We see many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of western civilisation. They are denying the moral principles and all traditional identities: national, cultural, religious and even sexual.

    Kiev must be taken, in his mind, to preserve the Christian battle. And there are many Christians in the west who agree with his sentiments.

    If you want to understand Russia today you’d better study Byzantium. Byzantium wasn’t perfect at all, but it was the pinnacle of Christianity, protecting the Faith with arms if necessary. It worked on the Orthodox Christian ideal of a “synfonia” between Church and State, working together to protect the Christian people committed to their care. This is what is happening in Russia today.

    The Byzantine system wasn’t perfect, and neither is Russia’s. However Christian emperors have always had armies and have not shrunk from defending their borders. President Putin, his deputy Dmitry Medvedev and his cabinet colleagues are determined not to let modern western atheistic licentiousness invade their country.

    Prior to the outbreak of this “Ukrainian war,” the Ukraine was widely regarded as one of the most corrupt countries in the world and certainly the most corrupt in Europe.

    Zelenskyy has long been in the direct pay of Ihor Kolomoisky, Ukraine’s second richest oligarch. Kolomoisky owned the notorious neo-nazi Azov battalions, it was his private army until it was absorbed, along with several other neo-Nazi groups, into the depleted Ukrainian army. Kolomoisky has been a top funder of the very Nazi Azov Battalion since it was formed in 2014. He has also bankrolled private militias like the Dnipro and Aidar Battalions, and has deployed them as a personal thug squad to protect his financial interests. It was these neo-Nazi battalions that were ordered to attack Donetsk-Luhansk at the beginning of the war (the order was intercepted by British, USA and Russian intelligence and included clear instructions to kill all civilians). That brought the ill-prepared Russian reservists in nearby Russia into the Ukraine to protect the Russian-culture people of the Donetsk-Luhansk region.

    Zelenskyy is a professional actor, chosen by Ihor Kolomoisky to stand for president on the grounds that he can learn by heart and repeat convincingly, the speeches written for him by Denys Shmyhal, the unelected “Prime Minister” who is in the pay of Rinat Akhmetov, heir to the east Ukraine criminal gangs, (an ethnic Tartar and a Muslim) and the Ukraine’s richest oligarch.

    The Pandora Papers contained 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published beginning on 3 October 2021. The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 35 world leaders, including current and former presidents, prime ministers, and heads of state as well as more than 100 billionaires, celebrities, and business leaders including Volodomyr Zelenskyy. And the Panama Papers likewise released and gave details of political leader’s corruption.

    Zelenskyy, who came to power on an anti-corruption campaign, is shown in these papers to be a billionaire, with most of his money held outside the Ukraine and therefore apparently guilty of tax evasion. Around $43,000,000 has been traced from the bank owned by Ihor Kolomoisky to Volodomyr Zelenskyy’s accounts.

    The ongoing basically civil war that we see in Ukraine is merely the opening war in a series leading to a major war probably based in the Middle East. It has already triggered a major energy crisis, made much worse by the insanity of the idea that climate change can be reversed, massive worldwide food insecurity, a catastrophic break-down in global supply lines, and pretty well out-of-control inflation (though this latter has other inputs).

    The now-visible globalist agenda being foisted on everyone by western corporations/governments has led to the beginnings of a reaction of nationalism which is fanning political instability in a number of western countries.

    There is a danger of the world moving into warring blocs. Secularists will tell you that it’s all economic. This is a lie because they are quite unwilling to let go of the atheistic liberal cultural morass that the western world has descended into, which is a major component of Russia’s rejection of the west.

    But why is America so invested in the Ukraine? Apart from baiting Russia and moving NATO closer to a non-threatening Russia? Let’s look at who owns what in America: Anti-war organisations point out that BlackRock is the largest investor in weapon manufacturers in the USA. It is also the largest investor in all forms and companies in the American media industry, and finally it is the largest investor in American big pharma companies.

    BlackRock and Vanguard are two of the Big Three passive fund asset management firms. The third, State Street, is owned by BlackRock whose largest shareholder is Vanguard. So the three firms are fully intertwined with common board members. Their interlocking directorates connect the corporate media to the state, the Pentagon, defence and arms manufacturers the oil industry and big pharma. All done through BlackRock’s investments and ability to steer the major firms in these industries. BlackRock-Vanguard are expected to control $20 trillion in assets in a few years’ time ($15 trillion at present, 40% of the US gross domestic product).

    To make it easy: BlackRock are the largest shareholders in US Media, Defence, Oil and big pharma. Defence companies make money out of war because hardware is used, destroyed and must be replaced. BlackRock wins. Media companies can direct the narrative to ensure the public is onside with a given war. BlackRock wins. Big pharma has installed dozens of dangerous medical laboratories in the west of Ukraine because it could “persuade” corrupt politicians to look the other way, which is partly why BlackRock want the US to defend Ukraine. BlackRock wins. There are decent oil reserves in the Ukraine and lots of coal. The oil companies, and former President Biden’s family, own some of that oil… unfortunately for them, Russia now controls a lot including Hunter Biden’s oil wells.

    Fink’s former chief of staff at BlackRock, Adewale Adeyemo, was, until President Donald J. Trump’s election, deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury. Former BlackRock executive Brian Deese, was Biden’s top economic advisor; former BlackRock executive Michael Pyle served as chief economic advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris.

    So they were not just into government, some observers think that BlackRock is in fact the shadow government of the USA, the very Deep State that President Trump speaks of time and again.

    What has that got to do with us, for we are Christians are we not? Well, the basis for all this is in fact almost completely that of the spiritual-moral debasement of world-wide society and particularly so in the more powerful nations of the west.

    This “moral revolution” so long in the making, but so recent in the application has radically changed the way many nations are going about governing their people and dealing amongst each other.

    This moral degeneracy in the west has led rapidly re-Christianising Russia and the rest of the Orthodox Christian Slavic states to want to cut off the cultural inflow from the west. It has led to Russia seeking to stem the inflow from the Ukraine across their very ethnically porous border, and intervening militarily in the ongoing Ukrainian civil war.

    What of Russia then? What drives her? Russia is re-Christianising at a phenomenol rate: 70 per cent of the population are now members of the Russian Orthodox Church with 110 million members, 368 bishops and about 40,000 priests and deacons. At the end of Communist rule in 1991, just 6,000 churches existed but now there are 36,000 – an average of three new places of worship built every day… and no government money involved. On top of that 5,877 seminarians are currently preparing for ordination.

    This is what is unnerving for western secular-atheist politicians, media and influencers. This to them, is every bit as dangerous as was the communist Soviet Union to their predecessors. But unlike the Soviets, Christian Russia is primarily interested in securing her borders, not advancing them.

    Secularist, globalist, liberal (and a lot of conservative) westerners have not the vaguest understanding of what is driving Russia. They only see it as “not democratic like we are equals evil”. They have no idea about the re-Christianising spread across Russia and insofar as it is brought to their notice, they dismiss it as irrelevant because of their own experience of the irrelevance of churches in the west.

    They do not understand that the Orthodox Church in Orthodox countries is very different from their experience of churches in the west. Russia was for a thousand years an intensely religious nation. It was universally Orthodox Church; there was no other – no protestants, no Roman Catholics, just the Orthodox Church, in a state run by a Tsar and his council of ministers all of whom were active members of the Church.

    Russia hasn’t got back there yet, but it is well on the way. The Orthodox Church, in Orthodox countries, seeks (but doesn’t always succeed) to work cooperatively with the government. It is called in Orthodoxy “symphonia”. The present Russian government has an elected parliament of a number of distinct political parties. The present President, his deputy and a significant number of the ministers are practising members of the Orthodox Church.

    What western observers and reporters deliberately fail to report is that constitutionally the Russian President is not part of the government. Take for instance, the conduct of the war in the Ukraine: President Putin cannot take decisions alone, he must work with the General Staff. The Russian General Staff, unlike in the west, is a specific college of very senior officers apart from the field officers who run the army, airforce and navy. Its members are very carefully chosen and trained, and they operate as a college, with whom the President must confer, and who will guide the conduct of any war. In fact, President Putin, is not driving the war forward, he is the one putting his foot on the brake pedal and holding the General Staff back, we know that from internal leaks.

    All countries in the past that claimed to be Christian, have had armies to defend their borders. All have moved into neighbouring countries if they perceived a threat to their people or way of life. That has been the pattern for two thousand years. So getting one’s protestant or protestantised or vaguely half-remembered Christian knickers in a twist about Russia intervening in the Ukraine when they clearly saw Ukraine embracing western sludge-culture and threatening genocide to the Ukrainian Russian culture citizens in two of their provinces, is just hypocrisy, nothing more.

    Russia has reclaimed a fair part of her historical territory and nothing will make her retreat now. The idea of her retreating is just a pipe dream of those who smoke interesting stuff.

    What about President Putin personally? For many years Putin has had a close relationship with Archimandrite Tikhon, the Father Superior of Sretensky monastery. Fr Tikhon, with a reputation as a spiritual healer, served as confessor to Putin. Fr Tikhon has reported in the past that Putin prays daily in a small chapel next to the presidential office. Putin’s mother and ex–wife were both certainly religious. As an overall picture, we can at the very least see that Putin is a man with a committed personal faith.

    Vladimir Putin’s close associate, Dmitry Medvedev is also an Orthodox believer, having converted during the communist period, when it was dangerous to do so.

    To understand Russia, it is necessary to understand the great Byzantine Empire, for that is Putin’s model. The Byzantine Empire worked on the “symphonia” of Church and State, where both worked in harmony.

    If you want to understand Putin, study the Byzantine Emperor Basil II. Despite near-constant warfare, Basil distinguished himself as an administrator, reducing the power of the great land-owning families who dominated the Empire’s administration and military, filled its treasury, and left it with its greatest expanse of treasure in four centuries. The Christian Byzantine Empire was not afraid to go to war to preserve its Christian heritage and its territory, it maintained a powerful army – as indeed, have other Christian empires, not least the British Empire.

    The Church, for Putin, has a significant and powerful value in forging a strong Russian state. The Church serves a powerful role in supporting Putin’s true political ideology – his identity as an advocate of a strong Christian state. The “Russian Idea,” as described by Putin in his ‘Millennium Message’, delivered in 1999 and still seen as the core of his political model, includes patriotism, collectivism, solidarity and destiny to be a great power.

    Read Josh. 11:1-5 and Deuteronomy 20:16-18; these biblical verses will explain a lot, because the genuine Christian Church reads the Old Testament too. So from that it seems that the People of God are required to defend themselves against such total moral degeneracy, by very strong means.

    While others have broken away from the Orthodox Church over the centuries, it remains today hundreds of millions strong. Orthodox Christians today are spread all over the globe, but where is that Church strongest? Russia, Serbia, Georgia, Romania, Bulgaria and the minor slavic nations as well as Greece. Which country is foremost among these? Russia is, it is the largest and has the majority of Orthodox Believers.

    The origins of the Russian Orthodox Church date to AD 988. That’s when Vladimir I, the ruler of Kievan Rus’ with its capital of Kiev, which included current-day Ukraine and Russia, the ancient Russian state, converted to Orthodox Christianity and his country with him. The Orthodox Church was at that time, the single Church in the world – the Church that Christ the Anointed founded with His Apostles.

    So today, for most of the Orthodox world, Russia is the standard-bearer, the people with the destiny of being the last bastion and defender of Orthodox Christianity in an increasingly self-destructive, evil, anti-Christian world.

    You can deride the Orthodox Christianity of Russia and her prophesied destiny all you want, but the fact is that is what is at the core of Russia today; that and her determination to regain her historic territory of Kievan Rus and thereby defend her borders and close them to the filth of western sewer culture.

    Forget The Guardian’s delusions, gentle reader, just watch how the western sanctions have failed, how the Russian economy is bounding ahead and how Russia has built the BRICS worldwide financial-trade organisation which is bringing to a halt the American BlackRock dollar dominance.

    Real, red blooded Christianity of the LORD of the Old Testament, who is the Anointed of the New Testament, will prevail. America and the degenerate west with its non-Christian allies, may yet drag us into a world war based in the middle east, but that will not be the end, not quite.


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  31. mh says:

    CNBC

    Hopes for more Fed rate cuts dim as Powell notes hot CPI means ‘we’re not quite there yet’

    And it would be prudent for the RBA to hold also.
    No pain, no gain.


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  32. mh says:

    We The Billionaires

    What’s Elon Musk Doing in the Oval Office?

    Nicholas J. Fuentes
    125K followers

    https://rumble.com/v6k2dkp-whats-elon-musk-doing-in-the-oval-office.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp


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  33. mh says:

    Nicholas J. Fuentes
    @NickJFuentes

    Rabbi Shmuley and Meghan McCain congratulate Tulsi Gabbard on her appointment to the ODNI.

    This is your based “anti-neocon?” LOL.

    https://x.com/NickJFuentes/status/1890023087963595243


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  34. Interested observer says:

    What follows is an opinion piece by a Russian Orthodox priest on the state of affairs in Russia and Ukraine. It is a full-throated defence of Russia and its actions and a condemnation of Ukranian and Western actions regarding Russia, and so, it is—by its nature—controversial and confrontational.

    Thank you for posting this mh. The corruption of Ukraine is beyond disgraceful and has enriched politicians and merchants of war to the point of gluttony.

    I have read articles about the tremendous casualties suffered by the Ukraine population including maiming, loss of limbs and life.
    The tragedy is that the population will continue to pay the price of failure to root out the deceit and bribery for many years after the total collapse of the great pretense. It will take another Hercules to cleanse the Augean stables.


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  35. mh says:

    Daily Telegraph looking for antisemitism on our streets

    Daily Telegraph under fire after alleged undercover operation | 9 News Australia

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm4DZWMW9d4


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  36. mh says:

    News Corp Antisemitism Stunt | The West Report

    23,766 views 11 hours ago #auspol
    Murdoch’s Daily Telegraph teams up with Israel provocateur to manufacture antisemitic incident. It backfires badly

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rPpOQsWdNI

    ***

    @MichaelWestMedia
    10 hours ago (edited)
    Interesting that this is the first video on this channel which Youtube has demonetised


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  37. mh says:

    Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch’s News Corp attempt to promote hate crimes against Jews

    Kangaroo Court of Australia
    31.9K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tTtVyV1nDU


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  38. mh says:

    FWIW

    Right Wing Cope
    @RightWingCope

    The mother of Elon Musk’s newest child is somehow also the only woman Nick Fuentes has ever touched

    https://x.com/RightWingCope/status/1890606795602665800


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  39. mh says:

    Via the Age

    Trump bans major US news agency for refusing to rename Gulf of Mexico

    Washington: President Donald Trump has banned one of the main US news agencies, The Associated Press, from the Oval Office and Air Force One because it has refused to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in line with his executive order.

    The extraordinary move has been labelled press censorship and an assault on the First Amendment, which guarantees the rights of free speech and the press. …

    ***

    It will always be the Gulf of Mexico to me.

    Just like Fraser Island will always be Fraser Island.


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  40. mh says:

    Looking at the opening statement of the Powerline link and all the “winning”. (Powerline is run by Jews btw, so they may be correct from their point of view).

    When you hear of Trump “winning”, there may be more to the story:

    Trump’s illegal immigration graph

    The red arrow “Trump Leaves Office” is pointing to April 2020 – when the world shut down travel due to Covid-19.

    One problem, Trump left office in Jan 2021.

    You will see on the graph by October 2020 illegal immigration is already way past anything under Obama.


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  41. mh says:

    Quds News Network
    @QudsNen

    Gaza | Palestinian detainees, released today as part of the prisoner exchange deal, and their families burn the uniforms that Israeli prison guards forced to wear, emblazoned with the Star of David and the phrase “We will not forgive, we will not forget.”

    https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1890765630409715871


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  42. mh says:

    Sean Strickland
    @SStricklandMMA

    Man if Trump keeps this bs up I’m about to start waving a Palestinian flag..

    American cities are shitholes and you wanna go spend billions on this dumpster fire..

    Did we make a mistake?! This ain’t America first..

    12:03 PM · Feb 11, 2025 · 13.1M Views

    https://x.com/SStricklandMMA/status/1889133156269527129


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  43. mh says:

    No wonder the Australian government banned Candace from visiting. She does not support ethnic cleansing. Outrageous!

    Candace Owens BLASTS Trump’s Plan To EXPEL Palestinians From Gaza

    Due Dissidence
    88.3K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuHvh1tNqfY


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  44. mh says:

    Florida: Jewish Man Shoots Two Israelis ‘After Mistaking Them for Palestinians’

    “Anti-Semitism” blamed despite anti-Palestinian bias allegedly cited as motive for shooting

    Chris Menahan
    InformationLiberation
    Feb. 16, 2025

    https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64849

    I’m sure Ron DeSantis will use this to crack down harder on antisemitism! Oy Vey!


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